Todd Dorman

The full history of the “pink slime” saga has yet to be written, but already, it’s being revised. In the …

So last week’s “historic” property tax deal is this week’s absolute mess. There’s now trouble in the Senate, where the …

So our ousted Iowa Supreme Court justices officially became “Profiles in Courage” on Monday. David Baker, Michael Streit and Marsha …

Our Legislature, it seems, is close to a big deal on slicing property taxes paid by businesses. There’s going to …

So maybe you heard that a vehicle carrying Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Kim Reynolds hit one of Iowa’s plentiful …

We started at the summit. We ended up in a sausage factory. But really, that was education reform’s fate all …

Salon posted a piece Sunday on the legacy of the Villisca axe murders. The 100th anniversary is on June 10. …

Did a Cedar Rapids doctor get a special legislative favor? The Des Moines Register Editorial Board thinks so: Don’t like …

Tom Vilsack runs the food stamp program for our so-called “food stamp president.” Iowa’s former governor and current U.S. secretary …

Welcome to this briefing on the future of live video in the Iowa House. Now, I don’t have to tell …

Two years ago, brand new Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett floated an interesting idea: What if the Corridor Metropolitan Planning …

Quick. To the Situation Room, for some no spin Hardball, or whatever. The Pew Research Center is out with a …

So I’m back from a 4-day weekend. I’ll pause briefly for the applause to die down. No, really, I was …

My co-worker Diane Langton, as skilled an archives-digger as I’ve ever known, points out that the search for a welcome …

It was a spring tradition that a columnist could count on, or so I thought. About this time each year, …